Cheap Printer with cheap ink

button16

Hey I currently have the HP F380 printer but finding it very expensive for ink cartridges which have a very small capacity so thought I might be better off bying a bog standard printer and just using that for scanning and copying. I'm at uni and printer lecture slides out to take to the lectures so printing out quite often mainly in black and white but need colour for diagrams etc.

So any suggestions on a cheap printer or a way to get round the ink cartridge problem, I have tried remanufactured which was fine for the black but the colour one was dodgy...

davetrousers

HP cartridges have new print heads on which is why they are expensive. Consider Canon printers as (I think) the cartridge is just a small reservoir of ink and therefore quite cheap.

donnajunkie

check out play.com the hp ink cartridges there arent too expensive. the hp printer we just got uses the 348,350 and 351 cartridges and for example the 348 photo one is £13.99 at play.com.
this is the printer we got,

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1130835281.1195060287@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccaddmidfimjicflgceggdhhmdfhk.0&page=Product&fm=1&sm=3&tm=0&sku=041725&category_oid=#productInformationSection

amonra

If it's mostly text you print, then why not use a laser ?
Samsung 1610 2010, can be got for around £50, very easy to refill and lasts for ages. Far quicker than an inkjet too.

bookduck

I like amonra answer. Just go the shop for those few colour pages as it is probably cheaper.

look for the cheapest range of ink, for a model from multiple sources. Then look if the quality/speed/function is good enough, then buy the printer.

Canon and Epsom seem ok. When I looked years ago Xerox cost £5.?? per cartridge.

If you are going to print loads, then look for CIS (continuous inking system), then buy the printer around this.

I was at PC world when they had a sale of Lexmark printers. One punter bought 4. One he took on printer with him and removed the ink from the other 3 and left the printers behind.

ffym

Individual ink cartridges seem to work out cheaper, as has been said some Canon printers use separate ink tanks with the electronics in a separate print head so the ink is quite cheap but once the print head goes it's bye bye printer. I have just bought an Epson Stylus D92 for my son: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/128776 It uses separate ink cartridges which seem cheap enough and it gives good results. I have also got an obsolete Canon (V good & cheap with ink reservoirs) and Lexmark (V Expensive multi cartridges).